Danny Boyle Quotes

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• It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations.
• I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
• I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.
• As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you,…
• I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you…
• If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
• That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness,…
• To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route.…
• Brian Cox is the nicest guy, but he's so arrogant.
• For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.
• The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
• There's lots of things that can be solved with cash.
• You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.
• The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the…
• Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.
• Celluloid will be the next decade's black and white.
• Come a crisis, we want other people.
• I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.
• I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.
• I haven't got anything against films that are about the minutia of relationships or customs, but I love extremes.

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